Is White Supremacy the “Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat” as Biden Suggests?

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President Biden spoke at Howard University’s commencement in Washington, D.C. last weekend, where he called white supremacy the “most dangerous terrorist threat” to the U.S., drawing mixed media reactions.

For Context: Howard, a historically black university, is 86% black, according to Wikipedia. Vice President Kamala Harris is an alumnus.

Not Far Enough: Sarah Posner for MSNBC (Left) thinks Biden’s remarks did not go far enough and should have directly acknowledged the Republican Party and Former President Donald Trump’s support of white supremacy. Posner says Republicans like Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) enable white supremacists, and that “Many Trump Republicans view themselves as engaged in a struggle for white supremacy.”

“Work to Do”: John T. Bennett for Roll Call (Center) says Biden “has work to do to convince Black voters he deserves a second term.” Bennett recalls recent polling of black voters where 42% of respondents wanted white supremacy declared a national security threat, but also the upward trend of black men voting for Republicans. Roll Call's article image depicts a student at Howard’s commencement whose mortar board read “Biden and Harris don’t care about black people.”

A Convenient Narrative: Wilfried Reilly for National Review (Right), says “white supremacy” as the “most dangerous terror threat” domestically is “arguably true,” but far less threatening than murder and opioids which have recently claimed record high numbers of lives. Reilly argues Biden is promoting a narrative that is politically beneficial to the American Left, but is much too narrow in focus.

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Joseph Robinette Biden, our only president, just provided us with a classic example of postmodern wordplay. In a recent speech to graduating seniors at Howard University, the octogenarian pol described “white supremacy” as the “most dangerous terrorist threat” — at least on the domestic front — to the United States. That’s arguably true, but it’s worth unpacking what exactly this means, and why Uncle Joe was so eager to announce it.

It's no wonder President Joe Biden was at Howard University last week. He has work to do to convince Black voters he deserves a second term.

Biden and congressional Democrats are focused on swinging public opinion to their side as they try to strike a debt ceiling deal with Republicans, just as Biden departed Wednesday for a G-7 summit in Japan.

But as he deals with record-low approval ratings and stubbornly high inflation, Black voters — a key bloc loyal to Democrats — remain restless after fewer among them voted in November.

In a commencement address delivered at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, President Joe Biden correctly deemed white supremacy “the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.” He was quick to add that he wasn’t saying this just because he was speaking at a historically Black university. “I say it wherever I go,” he added.